BRENTWOOD — A 47-year-old man has been indicted on charges he sexually assaulted a young girl in Northwood multiple times over a period of two years.

Prosecutors say Eddy James Folland engaged in a pattern of sexual assault against the girl beginning on or about March 2010, when she was 11, and continuing through 2012.

Folland, of Northwood, is currently incarcerated at the Rockingham County House of Corrections. He was indicted by a grand jury this month on three charges of felonious sexual assault on a person younger than 13 and a felony charge of aggravated sexual assault.

An indictment is not an indication of guilt. Rather, it signifies that a jury found sufficient evidence to warrant a trial.

Northwood police did not immediately return a call seeking comment on the case.